IMAGE
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 :[The invasion]. Plate 2. England. Design'd & etch'd by Wm Hogarth. Published according to Act of Parliament March 8th 1756. [London].
- Date
- 1756
- Reference
- D-020-094
- Description
Hogarth's second print shows the lusty, beef-eating British, with two girls measuring a grenadier's broad shoulders and a sailor waving his hat. `Rule Britannia' lies under a plate near by, and the fifer, leaning on a drum, is playing `God Save the King'. Another grenadier is drawing a caricature of the French King with sword and gallows, uttering a bubble of puppet-show Frenchified English, "You take a my fine ships, you be de pirate, you be de teef, me send my grand armies & hang you all, morblu".The inn sign displays the Duke of Cumberland, with the motto `Roast & boiled every day'.
Source of descriptive information - Uglow, Jenny. Hogarth, a life & a world. London, 1997
Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title; Recto - beneath image - Verse by Garrick
In 1756 the Seven Years' War began. England and Prussia fought against Catholic France and Austria.
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s).
Physical Description: Engraving, 315 x 385 mm (platemark) on cream wove paper, 482 x 650 mm
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Detail of fife player at 1/2-164851
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Part of
- Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790 / Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s), Works of art, Engravings, Caricatures, Portraits, Engraving, 315 x 385 mm (platemark) on cream wove paper, 482 x 650 mm
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